Monthly Archives: February 2014
How to use an SSH connection as a SOCKS proxy
In this article I will describe how to use an SSH connection as a SOCKS proxy. This basically means that you can route the network traffic of any application or even your entire systems traffic through an SSH connection.
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How to trim disk images to partition size
I’ve recently been playing with my Raspberry Pi and Arch Linux when I encountered the following problem:
I’ve downloaded the Arch Linux image from the Raspberry Pi download page and used dd to copy it to a 8GB SD card. Read the rest of this entry
How to mark books as read in Calibre
In this article I will describe how to mark/flag books you have already read in Calibre. Calibre is probably one of the best open source E-book library management application out there. It comes with many great tools and features and it’s easy to customize. By default there is no prebuild possibility to mark books you have already read in your library, but that’s where Calibres possibilities of customization come in handy. You can achieve this by simply adding a new column to your library. Just follow these simple steps:
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